It’s fast. Really fast. Firefox Quantum is over twice as fast as Firefox from 6 months ago, built on a completely overhauled core engine with brand new technology stolen from our advanced research group, and graced with a beautiful new look designed to get out of the way and let you do what you do best: surf a ton of pages, open a zillion tabs, all guilt free because Firefox Quantum uses less memory than the competition. Your computer will thank you.

I will try it out for a week as my main browser. So far I have noticed ram usage is at 20% lower than Chrome and with like 10 tabs open the CPU fan is surprisingly silent. With Chrome once I open one of Gmail account and that’s it. 10 tabs and the fan will be whining by now.

I like that it loads pages a tad bit faster than Chrome. So let me use it some more probably its playing nice for now.

According to Mozilla, updates to the Android version are scheduled for early next year with the release of version 60. If that is anything like the desktop version then Chrome will have some serious competition.

Interestingly enough Alibaba’s UC Browser was pulled from the Play Store today for unethical practices.

@AndroidAuth I work for UC Browser,I got mail today morning it said that UC Browser was temporarily removed from play store for 30 days because it used "Misleading" and "Unhealthy" methods of promotion to increase installs

Firefox focus is fast but too much has been stripped from it. I miss the autoplay prevention that’s in the full Firefox. On Friday I opened a huge article on a news site and somewhere near the bottom it had those videos that auto play and it started playing without sound. Somewhere in the middle of the article I realized the browser had eaten up almost 200MB data. I scrolled down and found the offending video and it was playing some stupid talk show Playlist. Firefox focus wasn’t even showing that I was viewing a noisy tab. I uninstalled it immediately.

The highlight is an updated browser engine that is claimed to be as fast as Chrome while remaining memory efficient. Mozilla have also bundled in a new UI, multi process support and a new API for browser extensions.